development planning - wyoming society of cpas
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Leadership:The capacity to influencehuman thought, emotion, and behavior . . . . . . starting with my own.
What separates truly great performers from everyone else?
Deliberate Practice
Willingness to Repeat Hard Things, Even After Initial Failures
Push Themselves Just Beyond Their Current
Capabilities
"Organizations tend to assign people based on what they're already good at, not what they need to work on."
- Geoff Colvin
Developmental Goals
"The best performers set goals that are not just about the outcome, but about the process of reaching the outcome."
Separate Coaching from Mentoring
Structured Coaching
3-3-1 in 15 minutes
•What’s working?•What’s not?•One goal
Coaching Tip: Ask Good Questions
• What’s the one thing that you could do now that would have the biggest impact on your future success in practice development?
• What's the one thing you could do that would have the biggest impact on your relationships with members of your engagement teams?
• What relationships should you be cultivating?• What are you doing to stretch yourself from a
technical perspective?
Coaching Tip: Practice Reflective Listening
“What I hear you saying is . . .”
“The greatest untapped source of motivation . . . is a sense of service to others; focusing on the contribution of our work to other peoples’ lives has the potential to make us more productive than thinking about helping ourselves.”
Dr. Adam Grant – Wharton
Selecting a Coach or Mentor
• What do you hope to achieve?
• What criteria will you use in selection?
• Who will you ask?
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Can I do it?
Do others motivate me?
Do others enable or hinder or prevent me from performing?
Does my environment motivate me?
Does my environment enable or hinder my performance?
Am I motivated?